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Stage and screen actor Cal MacAninch, who has been seen in television's Downton Abbey and returned to the stage of the Citizens Theatre last year in King Lear and Harold Pinter's Betrayal, will be the narrator for the RSNO's performance of William Walton's Henry V – A Shakespeare Scenario at the orchestra's season-closing gala concerts on May 31 at Edinburgh's Usher Hall and June 1 at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.
George Bernard Shaw slammed it as "despicable oratorio-mongering" and the "prostitution of Mendelssohn's great genius to this lust for threatening and vengeance, doom and wrath".
Caryl Churchill plays don't get done often in Scotland.
At the risk of appearing like the man with the long grey beard and glittering eye – and you may have heard something like this tale from the Ancient Michael Tumelty – have you noted how much is happening in the arts at the moment?
Through American Eyes: Frederic Church And The Landscape Oil Sketch, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
Niagara Falls, From The American Side, painted in 1867 by American landscape artist Frederic Church, is a real showstopper.
History doesn't really repeat itself with this buoyantly multi-faceted project – unless you count the riot of new ideas and emerging talents as a nod in the direction of the now-legendary 1913 premiere of Stravinsky's Rite Of Spring (choreographed by Nijinsky, designed by Nicholas Roerich.)
Given the obvious opportunity among the peg legs, neckerchiefs and cutlasses, the absence of a parrot was passing strange.
It's a question you might ask your mates down the pub: "What would make you want to riot?" A hundred years ago, the answer from Parisian ballet-goers was The Rite Of Spring (music by Stravinsky, choreography by Nijinsky).
Dance Base, Edinburgh Alles Church Hill Theatre, Edinburgh The Intergalactic Nemesis Traverse, Edinburgh Something Very Far Away
All over Edinburgh, venues large and small are currently hosting this year's Imaginate festival of performing arts for children and young people.
Two weeks ago, playwright Michael Frayn was given a special Olivier award for a body of dramatic work which over the last 40 years has quietly become an essential part of Britain's artistic fabric.
Additional News from Scotland
ED Balls has accused the UK Government of "driving people to the edge of despair" after a woman who committed suicide left a note blaming the so-called bedroom tax for her death.
Labour sources say the party would be ready for a snap Westminster by- election in Falkirk despite suspending its troubled candidate selection process last week.
First Minister Alex Salmond entered the controversy surrounding Nigel Farage's chaotic visit to Scotland by telling the Ukip leader he knows "absolutely nothing about Scotland".
David Cameron is embroiled in a row with Google after he claimed he tackled the technology giant over its tax arrangements.
THE suspension of the 11-strong SNP group on Argyll and Bute Council has been lifted by the party, but the group leader has stood down following a row over a new coalition.
Millions of pounds in pensions and savings would be put at risk in an independent Scotland, a report by the UK Government will today warn.
George Osborne last night told captains of industry the Coalition's economic policy was on the right course.
DAVID Cameron's last night faced the largest revolt on Europe from his own MPs this parliament with 114 Conservative backbenchers supporting a rebel amendment on the Queen's Speech
THE Scottish and UK governments have welcomed a record quarterly rise in employment and a fall in unemployment.
OIL company executives found by European Commission investigators to have manipulated petrol prices should be jailed, MPs have insisted as the UK Government warned that, in such circumstances, the culprits must face the full force of the law.
